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The new one is going to be 1,000 square feet smaller.

Is it true that the current Panera is the largest Panera in the world? Somebody hinted at that on CU. I could swear that the one at Morse and Hamilton is bigger.

They ran away because they weren't getting their picture taken enough!

Property taxes on commercial real estate in Columbus are REDONKULUS! That's one reason there's so many dead or slow strip malls up here. You pay mall rent for decent strip mall space.

Sales tax statewide went up .25% in September then Franklin County added another half percent. We are now at 7.5% here. BARF

Sounds like the average fast food joint.

Less war, less deficit? No way! Hopefully we get a real patriot next time around that knows how to throw money away while claiming to be fiscally conservative.

I thought you lived in Columbus. Sounds like you didn't hear about what happened with the Blue Jackets and the sale of Nationwide Arena.

That's the work of the new fire-safe cigarettes that kicked in in 2008. The smell is way worse and sticks around way longer. Also, cheap brands of cigarettes have gotten more popular as mainstream smokes rose to $6 a pack. Lifelong non-smokers think it was the smoking ban that led to a steep decline in smoking because they have no idea about the switch to fire-safe cigarettes that happened at the exact same time. Smoking fire-safe cigarettes is pure misery and led many people to quit after a short time. People who first smoked after the change have no clue either, except that they don't tend to stick with smoking for nearly as long as people who were teens in the '80s. The only reason smoking sticks around is from the few who don't notice the grossness of having rollbar padding glue in the paper. Also here in Ohio there is a lot of night and weekend work that studies have shown leads to heavy smoking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9ALqhgVK9M

Buzzfeed praises shut-ins and TV binge-watching so much that I doubt if they know anything about actually going outside the house.

With a lot of blue-collar work the shifts are too long to allow someone to vote during the normal hours on a weekday.

Ever wonder why nearly every county seat is either right in the middle of a county or on the water? So that it could serve the most people instead of declaring that people that live in one far off corner are more important that people who live in the other far off corner.

"space"

^ There's a specific reason for that in the case of cars. Remember how in the '90s, car paint peeled off after a few years, but mostly on metallic and bright-colored cars? The water based paint they have to use today peels off like that unless it's one of those four standard colors. Especially out West. Cars that you see in brighter colors such as an orange Ford Focus ST have more expensive paint that raises the price of the car.

Credit card fees went up a whole percentage point in the last year for me. Savvy businesses negotiate up front about credit card fees, but once you get going eventually they are going to raise your rates. The government lowered the max rate allowed by law yes, but to make up for it anybody who got dealz on their processing were lower than even the new maxes, us included. You'd hate to see a credit card processing statement; I'm trained in finance and accounting and they still makes my head spin due to the complexity, different discount rates and different fees. You have to do a full financial analysis on order to determine if switching to another rep and company will help you even if some number they spit out is lower than some number you're paying. They can make it back a zillion other ways and more. With business accounts of any kind, you can throw all those consumer protection laws out the window since they don't apply. So it's easy to see why a bar might do that but ONLY if they are hot enough and get enough foot traffic that they get to pull the somewhat arrogant move of rejecting all plastic. Or if the bar owner is so wealthy that it doesn't really matter how well the bar does. A business owner that is hungry does not reject plastic. Too many people have forsaken cash.

That's the kind of stuff I meant when I said people seem happier in functionally obsolete areas.

I offer a 5% cash discount, but that could get messy at a bar with each transaction resulting in an avalanche of coins.

Are we allowed to see colors other than red, black, grey and white anymore in the USA? Or have all other colors been done away with?

ODOT doesn't acknowledge the difference between peak and off-peak. Everything is peak all the time in this state.

Oh yes, you pretty much can't disturb cemeteries for road projects. You can, but you have to get every person's survivors or descendents to OK it. And that doesn't happen. Sorta like how you drive through a strip mine but see the cemeteries left untouched looking like islands.

The highway contractors do deal with limits from the freight railroads and graveyards. So there are some things that they do work around.

I had 3000 custom boxes made for my business, but our address is probably going to change by the time they're all used up.

I own a $600 print plate that's sitting in Dayton. I've never seen it and will probably never use it again.

Not bags, catalogs maybe?